St Patrick's Purgatory (Early English Text Society Original Series) [Hardcover]

R. Easting (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 1991 | ISBN-10: 0197223001 | ISBN-13: 978-0197223000

This volume contains four Medieval texts and brings together all the major Middle English accounts of otherworld visions seen at St. Patrick's Purgatory, apart from the St. Patrick in the South English Legendary. It presents the first edition for over a century of Owayne Miles from the Auchinleck manuscript, the Vision of William of Stranton, and the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii. The volume also includes an introduction, commentary on all the texts, and a full Middle English glossary.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'This edition is furnished with an extensive and helpful commentary and bibliography. As well as providing a careful examination of the language of each text, Easting includes a detailed analysis of each manuscript in which these visions occur ... this edition is of undoubted value ... the interest reader will find much useful elucidation in the extensive commentary, in which Easting frequently indicates the iconographic and literary context of each vision ... the quality of its content ensures that perseverance will be rewarded.' --Dierdre Kessel Brown, Medium Aevum, Vol. LXII, No. 1

About the Author

Robert Easting, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Victoria University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 431 pages
• Publisher: Early English Text Society (December 3, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0197223001
• ISBN-13: 978-0197223000
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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